Fall 1999

Roy Clements, a leading British evangelical apologist and pastor of Eden Chapel in Cambridge since 1979, has resigned his various professional positions, separated from his wife, and has reportedly acknowledged his homosexuality and left for a “celibate relationship” with his research assistant, a young man who was also a member of his congregation.

Summer 1999

Gay teen-agers are more than three times as likely to attempt suicide as other youth, according to a Massachusetts study reported this spring in The Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Young men are especially at risk. Robert Garofalo, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital at the Harvard Medical School and the lead researcher, noted that…

Spring 1999

Max Lucado, 11-million best selling author and pastor of Oak Hills Church of Christ in San Antonio, was interviewed in a recent issue of Christianity Today. Asked how he’d assess the state of the evangelical movement today, Lucado replied: “We’re struggling to deal with some tough questions, like abortion.

Winter 1999

The American Psychiatric Association, in December, issued its findings on psychiatric treatment and sexual orientation. The APA unequivocally concludes that efforts to “change” a homosexual orientation are based on the faulty assumptions that homosexuality is a mental disorder, that homosexuality should be changed, and that homosexuality can be changed.

REVIEW. Winter 1999 Vol. 24 No. 1.

“Are You Tolerant? (Should You Be?)” by Daniel Taylor, Christianity Today, January 11, 1999. “When Clients Seek Treatment for Same-Sex Attraction: Ethical Issues in the ‘Right to Choose’ Debate” by Mark A. Yarhouse, Psychotherapy, Summer 1998. by Dr. Ralph Blair Twelve little line drawings on the front of evangelicalism’s leading magazine are supposed to illustrate…

Winter 1998

The nation’s largest gay religious group and largest gay political group will co-sponsor what is predicted will be the largest gay civil rights event in history. It is to be staged in Washington, DC in the year 2000.